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Through elegiac verse that honors her mother and tells of herown fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the raciallegacy of her native Deep South -- where one of the first blackregiments, the Louisiana Native Guards, was called into serviceduring the Civil War. Trethewey's resonant and beguiling collectionis a haunting conversation between personal experience and nationalhistory.
Adapted from a popular Canadian radio drama, this light, engaging first novel by playwright Nichol is a coming-of-age story steeped in mystery. Abandoned by the roadside at the age of three, 19-year-old Walker Devereaux sets off to find his birth parents with the aid of only two clues: a photo of his mother as a child and a cryptic letter to her from her best friend. In pursuit of his past, he leaves his adoptive family and girlfriend in Big River and moves to Toronto, where he finds work on the graveyard shift at a cab company. He falls in with his dispatcher, the attractive, wheelchair-bound Krista Papadopoulos. Together, they follow the trail of Walker's parents as it leads from Toronto's chic Forest Hill neighborhood to the shores of Lake Erie and finally to Kingston, Jamaica. Nichol weaves in the story of Bobby, an animal-torturing, Hannibal Lechter–like character who Walker must confront if he is to learn his family's dark past. In an attempt to dissuade them from probing further, Bobby sets Krista's
Quelle étrange aventure que celle de cette femme chargée de lagarde de deux enfants dans une vieille demeure anglaise... A sonarrivée au manoir de Bly, tout annonce une expérience douce etheureuse : la fa?ade lumineuse de la maison, ses fenêtres ouvertes,ses fleurs éclatantes et surtout Miles et Flora, deux élèvescharmants. Mais bient?t la jeune gouvernante découvre la terriblemenace qui pèse sur les enfants. Dès lors, elle ne conna?t plus latranquillité. Une idée la hante : les sauver. Avec ce récit, Jamessigne l'une des plus captivantes et terrifiantes histoires defant?mes. Le dossier de l'édition confronte l'?uvre à ses "adaptations à l'opéra - The Turn of the Screw, de Benjamin Britten(1954) - et au cinéma - Les Innocents, de Jack Clayton (1961), LesAutres, d'Alejandro AmenAbar (2001). Il propose également desmorceaux choisis de grands textes de la littérature fantastique etd'épouvante.
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
O-lan is a homely servant girl in the village'sgreatest house. When she is taken as a wife byWang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toilstirelessly through four pregnancies for theirfamily's survival. Reward at first is meagre,but there is hope in their work, sustenance in the land. Until the famine comes. Forced to flee or die of starvation,the family arrives in the city, joiningthousands of peasants to beg on thestreets. It seems that all is lost, until acombination of good luck and O-lan'sto survive conspires to return them to theirhome with undreamt of wealth. But theyhave betrayed the earth that had previouslysustained them, and their money breeds onlymistrust and deception - and heartbreak for thewoman who had saved them.
“This is the shocking, profoundly moving and morally challenging story... It will haunt you, it will help to complete you… nothing short of miraculous.” -Augusten Burroughs “Just when you thought you might have read about every horror of the Holocaust, a book will come along and shine a fierce light upon yet another haunting wrong. SARAH'S KEY is such a novel. In remarkably unsparing, unsentimental prose... through a lens so personal and intimate, it will make you cry--and remember.” -Jenna Blum, author of Those Who Save Us “Masterly and compelling, it is not something that readers will quickly forget. Highly recommended.”-Library Journal, Starred Review “A powerful novel… Tatiana de Rosnay has captured the insane world of the Holocaust and the efforts of the few good people who stood up against it in this work of fiction more effectively than has been done in many scholarly studies. It is a book that makes us sensitive to how much evil occurred and also to how much willingness to do goo
Né en 1900 à Neuilly, Jacques Prévert est à la fois, par sespoèmes et ses chansons, le poète le plus populaire et le scénaristede L'affaire est dans le sac, du Crime de monsieur Lange, de Dr?lede drame, de Quai des brumes, du jour se lève, des Visiteurs dusoir, des Enfants du paradis.
Small town Louisiana has a big problem - or rather a number of big problems. And now some of them have come knocking on Sookie's door ...Sookie is an unassuming cocktail waitress in an (outwardly) unremarkable town. She's quiet, keeps to herself and doesn't get out much. Attractive as she is, her hidden 'talents' send men running. For some reason her mindreading skills are just a bit threatening ...Then the unreadable Bill appears on the scene. Tall, dark and handsome, Bill seems to be the man of her dreams. Except he's not technically human. Bill is a vampire and a vampire who keeps seriously bad company, some suspected - unsurprisingly - of murder. Things get a bit close to home when a co-worker is murdered and Sookie starts wondering whether she will be next ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Written in the third century BC in Alexandria, this is theonly full surviving account of Jason's legendary quest for theGolden Fleece. It describes the thrilling adventures of theArgonauts on their voyage to Colchis to plead with king Aeetes forthe fleece, his greatest treasure and the Eros-inspired passionfelt by his daughter, the beautiful witch-princess Medea, for thescheming Jason. Chronicling a journey that sees Jason and his crewtraverse perilous seas, negotiate the treacherous Cyanean Rocks,and confront the lure of the Sirens' song, The Voyage of Argo is amasterful depiction of distinctly human heroism and betrayal causedby love. An eloquent marriage of romance and realism, it tells thedefinitive version of one of the greatest legends of the classicalage: an epic tale of bravery, prophecy and magic.
